Restoring the Ubuntu usplash after a Kubuntu Install February 20, 2006

If you, like me, installed kubuntu-desktop to try it out, then afterward, you must have noticed that when you boot up, the kubuntu splash screen appears with “kubuntu” in blue (instead of the Ubuntu brown) while the computer is booting up.

While this is not a major problem, it is a minor irritant, since you will have to field questions from people regarding why you use kde instead of the superior gnome. Even if it is not a problem, I found a solution, and so it deserves to be called a problem, just so I can write an entertaining article regarding how to fix this.

To get back your familiar Ubuntu usplash image and screen, do a:$sudo update-alternatives --config usplash-artwork.so

Now you will get to answer a question regarding whether to use the Kubuntu, Ubuntu (or if you have it installed xubuntu) – desktop usplash imag. Select the one you want and rest at ease.

For those who don’t want to muck around with the terminal, may I suggest a quick read of the galternatives article I authored previously?

P.S. Regular Daily readers might like to know that an article on this site got dugg. I apologize for not having published anything since then – was busy reinstalling Ubuntu on a machine, and life interfered, too.

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how to look for nothing special ^^
No mater if user see kubuntu ubuntu or else … i think that someone not affraid with ubuntu will not be from kubuntu or anybootslpash
Most people don’t know much about linux and even less from ubuntu

on think that is interesting me will be to custom bootsplash with a random image or with a small animation🙂

Ubuntonista made a nice blog entry about restoring the Ubuntu usplash. I was already wondering how I could go back to the original one.Use the following command to choose the image you want:sudo update-alternatives –config usplash-artwork.soNow you choos

It seems to work well, however, on booting up, it seems to only display “Starting up…” followed by a few other status messages. This is different from previous versions, where it would display many helpful/interesting messages, like “Starting Apache2 [ok]”, etc.

There is a second step required to complete this or youll get ubuntu on shutdown and kubuntu on startup

From one of the ubuntu forums
NOTE: If you install the k/x/ed/ubuntu-desktop package, there’s a little bug where the splash screen (the boot-up and shut-down screen) gets taken over by any of the other desktop environments you have installed. If you want your old splash screen back, just paste this into a terminal:
Code:

sudo update-alternatives –config usplash-artwork.so

Choose usplash-default.so for the default brown ubuntu splash, or choose whichever one you like. Then paste this:
Code:

In Feisty, we have a simpler option. Download and install SUM (Start Up Manager) http://web.telia.com/~u88005282/sum/index.html
Find it under System>Administration>StartUp-Manager
Under the Appearance tab, under Usplash themes, click the pull-down menu, and choose “usplash-theme-ubuntu”
All done, but there’s lots more to play with there, too.

I just had this happen on my new Gutsy upgrade and I tried the update-alternatives but I fat fingered it and thought it was unavailable. However I noticed in /usr/sbin there exists ‘update-usplash-theme’. If you don’t provide any arguments it will list out the themes on your system. So to switch back to the Ubuntu theme the full command is:
sudo update-usplash-theme usplash-theme-ubuntu

After installing ubuntu I tried the kubuntu conversion and kde is great but I couldn’t get compiz to function properly so I wanted to switch back to ubuntu default any idea how to go about resetting ubuntu back to default applications and so on?

A few months ago, I thought I’d take a look at Kubuntu, and following Psychocat’s instructions (), I typed

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude install kubuntu-desktop

into my terminal, cried «Havoc !» and let slip the dogs of war. After using Kubuntu for a while, however, I decided I preferred Gnome, and so, again according to Psychocat’s instructions, I entered «sudo aptitude remove kubuntu-desktop» to remove Kubuntu from my system. Unfortunately – and to my surprise – this had no effect whatever ; a boot into Ubuntu still opened the Kubuntu splash screen and a look at Synaptic revealed that all the Kubuntu files that had been added were still installed. I then uninstalled them manually, but still saw the Kubuntu splash screen when booting into and closing Ubuntu.

A knowledgeable friend to whom I had appealed pointed me to this blog, and after performing «sudo update-alternatives –config usplash-artwork.so» in a terminal and then hitting «Reboot», I saw to my joy the Ubuntu exit screen appear, rather than the Kubuntu version. BUT when the box rebooted into Ubuntu, it was the Kubuntu splash screen in blue that once again appeared. I tried using the G-alternatives via the link above, but was unable to find my way to anything there that allowed me to deal with this problem – which is, of course, admittedly minor and easily lived with, but annoying just the same. I’d be very grateful if Carthik or some other reader could help me resolve it !…

I had a similar problem after i installed xubuntu desktop on top of the ubuntu one in 8.10 – it loaded up the xubuntu login screen which i didnt like. Turns out you can easily change it graphically by going to system > administration > login window and setting your preferences in there.

After finding this page, I tried the various methods described. I’m a relative newbie to GNU/Linux, so I’m not able to say why it didn’t work. The Usplash was set to ubuntu rather than kubuntu, the usplash for ubuntu was re-installed. In the end I logged in as root (because I still don’t know how to delete in the CLI) and deleted the usplash-theme-kubuntu.so from the /usr/lib/usplash folder. The ubuntu bootsplash has returned.

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